Easter Eggs for Grownups

This past weekend, Kevin was away on a work trip and I was looking for a fun, cheap activity that I could do while drinking wine with my closest GFs. I was flipping through the latest Chatelaine magazine (aka my Bible) and I saw a really cool article about Easter egg decorating. Hmmm… what a perfect centre piece idea for my Easter table! So I invited a handful of girls over, hit up Michaels for some glitter, glue and cheap paint brushes, and dug out the old acrylic paints I had in my closet. We ordered a pizza, drank wine and went to town decorating eggs like we were 10 years old again.

To make this craft cruelty free, buy eggs from an ethical (or more ethical) source such as a local backyard non-kill egg farmer or a pasture-fed producer such as Organic Meadows.

I realize a full-fledged-vegan might not enjoy this craft. But hey… we do our best.

We hollowed the eggs pre-decorating using the ol’ pin hole trick. You make a small hole on the top of the eggs using a pin (safety pin works well). Then you make a second, slightly larger hole on the bottom. A bobby pin helped make the hole bigger. You blow the egg yolks and whites out one egg at a time. Then we decorated all the eggs. It helps make the finished product look more “mature” if you pick a theme in advance. One of my friend’s chose to do metallic, black and white. I chose to do gold, green and blue.

A Pinterest & Instagram-worthy girls night.

A few of our favourite egg decorating techniques:

1. Doodle on the eggs with a sharpie in a adult colouring book style pattern.
2. Make ombre eggs using acrylic paint. Progressively add more white to the paint so that the colour fades from top to bottom.
3. To achieve the “marble” look, fill a tupperware container with water. Make sure it’s one you don’t mind recycling after this craft. Drizzle some old nail polish in the water. Dip and roll your egg in the water and remove quickly to let dry. This technique works best if you only use a few colours at a time. This is a great way to use up old nail polish you never use!
4. Paint the egg with craft glue. Dump glitter into a ziplock bag. Add gluey egg to glitter filled ziplock and shake it around a little. For extra pizzazz, paint egg first with acrylic or water paint or even the marble nail polish technique. Allow egg to dry. Use masking tape to cover up half of the egg. Then paint with craft glue and cover with glitter. These eggs are next level!